Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. created 1.7 billion yen in slush funds over the six years through fiscal 2023 through fictitious transactions involving repair contracts for Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force submarines, the Defense Ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is expected to skip a visit to the United States in January, Japanese government sources said Monday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Resona Bank may have been hit by a so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, in which perpetrators overload traffic by sending enormous amounts of data, it was learned Monday.時事通信社 による

Japanese companies and other organizations are rushing to develop technologies to counter fake information that spreads on the internet during natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.時事通信社 による

High school students in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, are actively involved in reconstruction efforts following the Noto Peninsula earthquake in early 2024.時事通信社 による

Tokyo stocks lost ground on Monday, the final market day of 2024, but the benchmark Nikkei 225 average finished at its best year-end level ever.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba mourned Sunday's death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a statement released Monday.時事通信社 による

The Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers, or JAM, does not rule out the possibility of member unions going on strike in the 2025 "shunto" spring wage negotiations, the JAM leader has said.時事通信社 による

While bookstores are increasingly closing in Japan due to the expansion of online shopping, some have started to work with libraries for survival.時事通信社 による

The role of the Group of Seven major powers including Japan is increasing as the international community is growingly divided amid rising geopolitical tensions, a Japanese official has said.時事通信社 による

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An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed at a poultry farm in the town of Yachiyo, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, the prefectural government said Sunday.時事通信社 による

Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers has revealed on social media that his wife, Mamiko, is pregnant with their first child.時事通信社 による

Japanese Princess Kako, the second daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, turned 30 on Sunday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Defense Ministry on Saturday began ground improvement work on the Oura Bay side of the Henoko coastal area in Okinawa Prefecture, as part of a U.S. base relocation project in the southernmost prefecture.時事通信社 による

Japanese lawmaker Toshiyuki Adachi of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has died during his visit to the Maldives, informed sources said Saturday.時事通信社 による

Police have arrested a 77-year-old unemployed man in Tokyo for allegedly murdering a woman, apparently his own wife, by running her over with a car.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday hinted at the possibility of holding a snap election for the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, on the same day as next summer's election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber.時事通信社 による

A man who lost his wife and three children in a huge earthquake in central Japan a year ago is trying desperately to move forward.時事通信社 による

Former Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki died of malignant lymphoma at a hospital in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, at 3:53 p.m. Wednesday. He was 94.時事通信社 による

Japan and the United States have for the first time jointly drawn up guidelines for extended deterrence, the Japanese government announced Friday.時事通信社 による

Iran, El Salvador, Botswana and South Africa have pulled out of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, for financial and other reasons, people familiar with the matter said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Defense Ministry said Friday that it has found over 100 new cases of the Self-Defense Forces mishandling designated security secrets, such as improper procedures for members transferring posts and illegal copying of information.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba suggested Friday that he may call a snap election for the House of Representatives if a no-confidence motion against his cabinet is passed in the all-important lower chamber of his country's parliament.時事通信社 による

Japan's seasonally adjusted ratio of effective job openings to seekers in November stood at 1.25, unchanged from the previous month, the labor ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced Stefan Kaufmann, former president and CEO of Japanese optical equipment maker Olympus Corp., to 10 months in prison suspended for three years, for obtaining banned drugs.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government said Friday it estimates 78,440 billion yen in general-account tax revenues for fiscal 2025 starting next April, up 12.7pctfrom the fiscal 2024 initial budget.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government plans to issue bonds worth a total of 176,858.7 billion yen in fiscal 2025, the Ministry of Finance announced Friday.時事通信社 による

Core consumer prices in central Tokyo rose 2.4pctfrom a year before in December, lifted by higher electricity and gas bills and rising rice prices, the internal affairs ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japan's industrial production in November fell 2.3pctfrom the previous month, the first drop in three months, the industry ministry said Friday.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday that he plans to visit Malaysia and Indonesia in early January.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government has drafted its new green transformation, or GX, strategy, which includes a plan to concentrate growing industries in areas rich in carbon-free power sources, such as solar and other renewables, as well as nuclear plants.時事通信社 による

Japan's seasonally adjusted nominal gross domestic product fell below that of California for the first time in the second quarter of this year, NLI Research Institute, a private think tank in Tokyo, said Thursday.時事通信社 による

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that uranium has been detected in nuclear fuel debris extracted from one of the three meltdown-hit reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.時事通信社 による

Japan's health ministry has drawn up a report that includes a plan to require companies to take measures against customer harassment of workers, it was learned Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan's Financial Services Agency issued a business improvement order to Aeon Bank on Thursday accusing it of deficiencies in its fight against money laundering.時事通信社 による

Chisako Kakehi, a 78-year-old death-row inmate known as a "black widow" who was convicted in serial murders using hydrocyanic acid in western Japan, died at the Osaka Detention House on Thursday, the Justice Ministry said.時事通信社 による

Japan's 10 major electricity suppliers said Thursday that February bills for standard households will be cut by up to some 650 yen, thanks to the resumption of government subsidies.時事通信社 による

The competition rate of employment examinations for public school teachers in Japan hit a record low in fiscal 2024, the education ministry said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Prosecutors failed to properly investigate Iwao Hakamata, 88, who was acquitted this year in his retrial for the murder of four people in 1966, Japan's Supreme Public Prosecutors Office said in a report Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan's 195 major food and beverage makers plan price hikes for a record 1,380 products in January amid rising logistics and labor costs, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Thursday.時事通信社 による

Then Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa expressed his skepticism about China's democratization in a summit with then U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1993, Japanese diplomatic documents showed Thursday.時事通信社 による

Of foreign workers with work-related issues in Japan, one in five cited expensive fees they paid to employment agencies, a labor ministry survey showed Thursday.時事通信社 による

Japan Airlines said Thursday that a cyberattack has hit its network equipment, causing a system failure and affecting some domestic and international passenger flights.時事通信社 による

A Japanese panel of experts Thursday called for creating a law allowing the government to gain cooperation from artificial intelligence developers in the event of a serious problem related to AI technologies.時事通信社 による

The Japanese government said Thursday it expects wage growth in Japan to outpace the country's consumer inflation in fiscal 2025, as in fiscal 2024.時事通信社 による

A powerful earthquake that hit central Japan nearly a year ago has led to moves to help spread disaster-related information to foreign nationals.時事通信社 による

Hong Kong-based activist investor Oasis Management Co. has increased its equity stake in Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., rocked by a high-profile health hazard scandal over its supplements containing "beni koji" red fermented rice, according to a share transaction report.時事通信社 による

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged his country's continued support to Ukraine in its war with Russia during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday.時事通信社 による